And if the kings or seigniors of the land give any jewels or presents, they shall be ours, and the inspector-general or accountant shall place them in charge of the treasurer.
In Parliament the magistrates, the solid men of France, revolted against the seigniors as they had revolted against the barricades.
The seigniors whom he met at the Hôtel de Rambouillet would have blushed to feel compassion.
You shall labor diligently to make and establish sound friendship and peace with the natives, and you shall deliver to their seigniors and chiefs, as may seem best to you, the letters from his majesty that you carry with you for them.
In addition to these courts the seigniors had in some cases the right to try crimes that were committed on their estates, and nominally to pass the extreme penalty of death upon their vassals.
The members of the Company claimed to be the Seigniors of New France, with the right of nominating the Council for the government of Canada.
The feudal system had been transferred to Canadian territory, and by its means the seigniors attempted to tie the peasant to the soil.
The Duchess accordingly transmitted to Philip the conclusions of the assembly, together with the reasons of the seigniors for refusing to take part in its deliberations.
The seigniors having thus washed their hands of the matter, the doctors came to a conclusion with great alacrity.
These threeseigniors had written, immediately upon Granvelle's retreat, to assure the King of their willingness to obey the royal commands, and to resume their duties at the state council.
They formed a company with large powers as seigniors as soon as they had obtained from M.
In the early days of the colony, however, the seigniors were generally too poor to fulfil this condition, and the habitants had to grind corn between stones, or in rude hand mills.
The seigniors had the right of dispensing justice in certain cases, though it was one he very rarely exercised.
I neither believe nor disbelieve any tale which these grave seigniors choose to tell me," rejoined the Duke.
VII Having made his last obeisance before the Duke of Alva and taken leave of the grave seigniors of the Grand Council, don Ramon de Linea bowed himself out of the room with all the ceremony which Spanish etiquette prescribed.
They stared with undisguised insolence at the grave seigniors who belonged to the despised race.
The noble seigniors of the city and the Spanish officers of the garrison all used to come to us in the afternoons.
The numbers will be doubled within the next few days," interposed one of the grave seigniors with conviction.
At one hour before noon theseigniors were at last told very peremptorily that they might present themselves before His Highness.
One by one now the grave seigniors withdrew, having taken respectful leave of His Highness.
All threeseigniors had chafed at this irksome task--they found torrents of ridicule to pour upon the loutish Netherlanders and their vulgar and unseemly habits; but the Duke was firm, and obedience was obligatory.
But, strange to relate, this was the very object which the lord seigniors had in view; the very object they sought to compass, by instituting their games.
But to tell how the lord seigniors Hello and Piko came to join hands in this matter.
Upon this throne, purple-robed, reclined those very magnificent and illustrious lords seigniors, the lord seigniors Hello and Piko.
The one hundred and twentieth in lineal descent from Phipora," said Mohi; "and connected on the maternal side to the lord seigniors of Klivonia.
Ay; the land of clubs and javelins, where the lord seigniors Hello and Piko celebrate their famous games," cried Mohi.
The minister constantly represented the great seigniors as influenced by ambition and pride.
He avowed that he feared no attempts at assassination, for, if the seigniors took his life, they would destroy the best friend they ever had.
This, urged Granvelle, was particularly necessary, because the seigniors were irritated that so important a matter should have been decided upon without their advice, and because the Marquis Berghen was now the "cock of the opposition.
Had all the seigniors made common cause with Philip and Granvelle, instead of setting their breasts against the inquisition, the cause of truth and liberty would have been still more desperate.
The right of naming their own governor, which they claimed as seigniors of Montreal, had been violated by the action of Frontenac in placing La Nouguere in command without consulting them.
The Duke added that if the seigniors did not wish him for a friend, it was a matter of indifference to him.
On a hope held out by the seigniorsthat his son should be made Bishop of Liege, he had ceased during a whole year from visiting the Cardinal, and had never spoken to him at the council-board.
Since the return of Montigny, the seigniors had established a league which that gentleman and his brother, Count Horn, had both joined.
He was to express the royal astonishment that the seigniors should absent themselves from the state council, with a peremptory intimation that they should immediately return to their posts.
The great feature of his administration was a prolonged conflict between himself and the leading seigniors of the Netherlands.
The reader has already seen that the letter was indeed "from the Cardinal's smithy," Granvelle having instructed his master how to reply to the seigniors before the communication had been despatched.
The other seigniors were described in general terms as disposed to overthrow the royal authority.
Meantime the three seigniors had become very impatient at receiving no answer to their letter.
Having already wormed himself into the confidence of the Regent, he made a point of showing to the principal seigniors various letters, in which she had been warned by the Cardinal to put no trust in them.
The next epoch of Corsican history exhibits a series of the most sanguinary conflicts between the seigniors and Genoa.
The Gentili, with the Seigniors da Mare, were masters of the Cape.
There is no other entrance into the tower; its outer works are destroyed, but the remains show that a castle, either of the seigniors of Cape Corso or of the Genoese, stood here.
Some peasants of Nebbio had fallen out with certain retainers of the seigniors from beyond the mountains, and blood had been shed.
This was once the seat of the most powerful seigniors of Cape Corso, and above Erba Lunga stands the old castle of the Signori dei Gentili.
The Cathedral, in which a great many Genoese seigniors lie entombed, stands in the Terra Nuova; in the Terra Vecchia is the large Church of St. John the Baptist.
The Corsican chronicler makes all the seigniorsspring from the Roman knight Hugo Colonna and his companions.
The seigniorsbeyond the mountains, in league with Arragon, made a desperate resistance.
The seigniors immediately issued from their castles, and spread war and discord over the land.
The seigniors of Cape Corso rose first, with the countenance of Genoa; but they were unsuccessful--with an iron arm Arrigo crushed every revolt.
Pisa made a formal surrender of the island to Genoa, and thirty years after the death of Giudice, the Terra del Commune, and the greater number of the seigniors submitted to the Genoese supremacy.
Genoa now sent troops with all speed; after a struggle of two years, Vincentello was compelled to leave the island--a number of the selfish seigniors having made common cause with Genoa.
The seigniors themselves largely benefited by the capitalization in money of their old rights, and by the untrammelled possession of land held en franc aleu roturier.
Provision was also made by parliament for securing compensation to the seigniors for the giving up of all legal rights of which they were deprived by the decision of the commissioners.
The whole success of the seigniorial system, as a means of settling the country, depended on the extent to which the seigniors were able to grant their lands en censive or en roture.
Titled seigniors were very rare at any time in French Canada.
It was obligatory on all seigniors to register their grants at Quebec, to concede or sub-infeudate them under the rule of jeu de fief, and settle them with as little delay as practicable.
It does not, however, appear that military service was a condition on which the seigniors of Canada held their grants, as was the case in France under the old feudal tenure.
For a pecuniary compensation the seigniors allowed the economical and tenacious peasant to pick off it a good many stones.
Footnote 1311: On the conduct and sentiments of lay and ecclesiastical seigniors cf.
Many of the seigniors in Bourbonnais have the benefit of and exact these taxes of their vassals by virtue of titles much more open to question than those of the seigniors of Blet.
The nobles takes no interest in anything, excepting a few just and benevolent seigniors who take advantage of their influence with vassals to prevent affrays.
Out of twenty seigniors at the court there are fifteen not living with their wives, and keeping mistresses.
He himself just makes shift to live in a miserable way, with five domestics, a hound and two old mares "in a chateau capable of accommodating a hundred seigniors with their suites.
Grand seigniors in retirement, and unoccupied fine ladies, enjoy the examination of the subtleties of words for the purpose of composing maxims, definitions and characters.
Under that circular portico, all the seigniors enjoying the privilege of entering it witness together the play of a new jet d'eau.
The seigniors had also certain judicial or magisterial powers, but they never acted except in very trivial cases.
All the evidence before us goes to show that only a few officials and seigniors ever availed themselves of this permission to leave the country.
Finally, he went with his regiment to La Mamora, and was in full command of all the companies in which served the seigniors and cities of Andalucia and three hundred soldiers of the coast of Granada.
The king left a letter for the governor; and one of the seigniors of Europa could not apparently write more prudently or in more just manner.
Very few of the Canadian Seigniors were of noble birth, all were poor, their honours were brand new, their domains were backwoods with occasional clearings, their vassals were nearly as good men as themselves.
Even the Sulpitian brotherhood, whose rights as seigniors of Montreal island this governor had at one time slighted, appeared to do him honor.
At the north extremity of the town that huge stone windmill built by the seigniors for defence, cast a long dewy shadow toward the west.
It is needless to say that these seigniors did not obey the summons.
Yet from up and down the river the seigniors had brought their wives and daughters to witness the event.
In the year 1854 Seigniorial Tenure was abolished, the Government recompensing the seigniors for the surrender of their ancient rights and privileges, and freehold tenure, as in Ontario, was introduced.
Aremberg, Berlaymont, and Noircarmes were with the Duchess when the other seigniors arrived.
The three seigniors refused to be seated, and remained but for a moment, "the length of a Miserere," taking with them Hoogstraaten as they retired.
The deputies from St. Trend, consisting of Brederode, Culemburg, and others, exchanged with the two seigniors the old arguments.
They had hoped, they said, that a movement would be made by the seigniors or by the estates, to remedy the evil by striking at its cause, but they had waited in vain.
He was thoroughly conversant with the general tone in which the other seigniors and himself were described to their sovereign.
Orange had the firm intention of making himself master of the whole country, and of dividing it among the other seigniors and himself.
Such being the cases and the tenor of those documents being what we have seen it to be, her complaints as to the incredulity of those seigniors to her affectionate protestations, seem quite wonderful.
From this time forth the position of, these leading seigniors became more sharply defined.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seigniors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
